Combined hatchet and wire-tightener



(No Model.)

E. A. KECK.

COMBINED HATGHET AND WIRE TIGHTENER.

N0. 574,611f Patented Jan. 5, 1897, I

NrrEn STATES FFICE.

EDGAR A. KEGK, OF OOTULLA, TEXAS.

COMBINED HATCHET AND WIRE-TIGHTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 574,611, dated January5, 1897.

Application filed January 17,1896. Serial No. 575,868. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR A. KEcK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cotulla, in the county of La Salle and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Combined Hatchet and Wire-Tightener, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to combination-tools; and the object in View isto provide in one article a hatchet and a wire-twisting device by meansof which slack maybe taken up in fence-wires as fast as it occurs.

lVith the above object in view the invention consists in certain novelfeatures and details of construction and arrangement, as hereinafterfully described, illustrated in the drawings, and finally embodied inthe claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective viewillustrating the construction of the improved device. Fig. 2 is anenlarged detail sectional view showing the manner in which a wire isengaged preparatory to crimping or bending a kink in the same. Fig. 3 isa detail elevation of the wire-crimping jaws.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in theseveral figures of the drawings.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates a hatchet having asocketed or apertured head for the reception of the end of a handle 2.This hatchet is provided at one side of the head with a chopping-blade3, of any preferred shape, and has upon the opposite side of the head apoll 4, said parts being preferably formed in one piece.

Upon one side of the head and preferably formed integrally therewith aretwo laterally-projecting spurs or jaws 5, which are arranged at a slightdistance apart sufficiently to admit an ordinary fence wire betweenthem. The general tendency of these spurs or jaws is in an obliquedirection, and the inner adjacent faces or edges of said jaws are alsoobliquely disposed, but arranged substantially in parallelism. Theprojecting extremities of the jaws 5 are out under to formreceiving-shoulders 6, against which the wire dental displacement of themay rest during the operation of twisting or crimping the same, at thesame time forming ot'erhan gin g keepers for preventing the acciwirewhile being operated upon.

In operation the head of the hatchet is brought against a slackfence-wire until the jaws 5 straddle the same, whereupon the tool isrevolved until the shoulders 6 engage the wire. Upon a further rotationof the tool the jaws take up the wire and form a kink or crimp therein.When the tool has been turned sufficiently to take up all the slack inthe wire, by simply reversing the direction of rotation the tool may bereadily disengaged from the wire, leaving the latter kinked and taut.

The combination t-ool hereinabove described is especially designed forfenceriders or those whose duty it is to keep in repair the wire fencessurrounding large tracts of land. This device renders it unnecessary forthe attendant to carry a separate crimping-tool in addition to thehatchet, which is also essential.

It will be apparent that changes in the form and proportion may beresorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of theadvantages of this invention.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is- A toolprovided upon one side with opposing triangular jaws projectinglaterally therefrom and having their adjacent faces arranged oppositeand parallel to each other, the said jaws lapping by each other andterminating in acute-angled points which are undercut to formwire-engaging shoulders, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EDGAR A. KEOK. \Vitnesses 'l. R. KEcK, W. J. BOWEN.

